Experience learning made easy--and quickly teach yourself how to use the complete suite of Microsoft Office XP applications. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction--building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! WORD: Create and publish great-looking documents quickly and easily EXCEL: Develop easy-to-use spreadsheets and perform calculations ACCESS: Build your own databases for better decision making POWERPOINT: Produce and deliver compelling presentations FRONTPAGE: Get yourself--or your company--on the Web fast by constructing your own site PUBLISHER: Create professional-quality marketing materials--without being a designer OUTLOOK: Manage your e-mail communications and calendar

Exploit powerfully enhanced programmability in Office XP with authoritative information -- straight from the Microsoft Office development team. This hardcore programming reference comes packed with practical, roll-up-your-sleeves resources to help you maximize your productivity with development tools for Microsoft Office, including the Microsoft Visual Basic "RM" 6.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ "RM" development systems. This guide includes coverage of Workflow Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server "TM" and Microsoft Exchange, offering both design and coding examples, plus API-level coding examples. It also covers enhanced support in Microsoft Office XP for Web-enabled information sharing and XML. Use this incisive coverage to build on what you know and to accomplish everything from automating individual tasks to creating complex vertical-market applications. Each chapter presents dozens of code examples that illustrate the discussion. And the companion CD-ROM contains hundreds of procedures you can use right now -- helping you to focus your creativity on designing solutions, rather than on building rudimentary code. It's everything you need to create better business solutions, faster!

Presents a guide to the applications found in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Master the basics of Microsoft Office quickly and easily with this Visual QuickStart Guide. Previous editions of this book have sold over 50,000 copies worldwide Organized and presented specifically for busy professionals who need to get right to work A reasonably priced, easy-to-reference guide to the essentials of Microsoft Office The standard suite of business applications, now up20010803d for the new Windows XP platform, Microsoft Office XP for Windows is a full-featured word-processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and information management package. Office XP for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide guides users right to the most frequently-used tasks in Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook, using clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrated with hundreds of helpful screen shots. For users who don't have the time or resources to wade through long passages of text and just want a quick reference to the essentials of each Office application, this is the ideal guide. Steve Sagman has written or co-written over 17 books on computing, including Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. His books have sold well over a million copies, and have been translated into 12 languages. He has written for PC Computing, Computer Shopper, PC Week, PC World, and PC Magazine.

Updated to take account of Office XP, this book provides Excel users with the ability to analyse data quickly. The book's organization parallels a standard course in business statistics.

With over three million users, Microsoft Office is by far the most popular suite product available. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Office gives true beginning computer users all the basic information they need, in addition to taking them into more intermediate-level uses. The book's friendly format and lighthearted style take the fear out of learning Microsoft Office.